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<p>First up this week: Maura Tierney! You know her from her time on the hit drama ER - she played Abby. She's currently on the Showtime series The Affair, as well. And, here's a personal favorite of ours: She also starred on the sitcom Newsradio as Lisa, the ambitious reporter and producer. Her latest role is in the film Beautiful Boy, where she stars alongside Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. </p>
<p>Then, Michael Kupperman. He's a comics artist and writer whose work usually comes off as surreal, silly and always hilarious. Not so much with his latest work, though. He made a touching, fascinating graphic memoir about his father. It's called "All The Answers." Michael's dad is Joel Kupperman - who, for a brief period in the 40s and 50s, was one of the most famous people in the nation. Joel spent almost his entire childhood and adolescence on TV as a "quiz kid," answering trivia questions for prizes.</p>
<p>Finally, for the outshot: Jesse tells you about the last great album Sly Stone ever recorded.</p>
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<p><center><b>Maura Tierney on her career and her starring role in the new film 'Beautiful Boy'</b></center></p>
<p>Maura Tierney is probably best known for her time on the hit drama "ER." She played Abby Lockhart. Her character was introverted, sarcastic and a bit self-destructive, but when it came to her patients she always showed warmth and compassion. Her role was complex and nuanced, which is uncommon for a soap opera. She's currently on the Showtime series "The Affair." </p>
<p>She also starred on "Newsradio" as Lisa, the ambitious reporter and producer. Lisa was the kind of person who kept a tight schedule and always had her eyes on her life-plan. She was also the kind of person who could perform complex mathematical calculations in her head. Her character was incredibly intelligent, kind of an overachiever and at times very funny.</p>
<p>She's currently starring in an acclaimed drama: "Beautiful Boy," which just hit theaters. It's a story about the difficult and frustrating nature of addiction. It stars Timothée Chalamet as Nic, a college age kid struggling with a drug habit. Maura plays Karen, Nic's step mom. "Beautiful Boy" is as unique as it is realistic: addiction is a complicated thing. It brings some people closer together, drives others away, it has ups and downs.</p>
<p>This week, we'll chat about these roles and look at the rest of her career, which spans several decades. Plus, she'll explain why she starred alongside Jerry Orbach in the 1991 film "Dead Women in Lingerie." We'll play a clip from the movie, and you can bet she shrieked in horror that we were able to dig that up.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65iYwq-ZLf4"><b>Check out this interview on YouTube!</b></a> </p>
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<p><center><b>Michael Kupperman on his new graphic memoir 'All The Answers' </b></center></p>
<p>Michael Kupperman is a cartoonist, writer, and he's one of our favorites at Bullseye. His comics have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Believer Magazine. A lot of his stuff is surreal, and a little silly. For his latest book he gets serious and very personal. In "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-Answers-Michael-Kupperman/dp/1501166433/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1542141276&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=all+the+answers+by+michael+kupperman"><i>All The Answers</i></a>" he explores his father's time as a world famous TV Quiz Kid. </p>
<p>Back in the 40s and 50s, when people were still figuring out how television worked, there were "quiz shows." TV programs where hosts would ask contestants trivia questions, and if they kept answering right, they'd stay on the show. Michael's dad; Joel Kupperman, managed to stay on for almost a decade. And it all happened when he was a kid. </p>
<p>When he grew up, Joel pretty much left TV. And he didn't talk about it much, not even with his family. And when he did, it wasn't usually positive. Michael got the sense that this was a pretty dark chapter in his Dad's life. So Michael did some of his own research. He went through old tapes, talked to family members. It's a fascinating portrait of his father, and a really moving read. </p>
<p>His father never talked much about his childhood. So Michael learned a lot of surprising things about his father later on in life on his own. He'll describe what it was like to discover that his father had once performed with the Marx Brothers. Plus, he'll explain why he had an easy time drawing his father in the book, but struggled to draw himself. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2-_iJyy20"><b>Check out this interview on YouTube!</b></a> </p>
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<p><center><b> The Outshot: Sly and the Family Stone 1973's 'Fresh' </b></center> </p>
<p>Finally, Jesse explains why "Fresh" was the last great album by Sly and the Family Stone ever recorded. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFMlU2mBXZM"><b>Check out this segment on YouTube!</b></a> </p>
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<p>The Bullseye Holiday Special returns for 2014! Music expert Mitchell Kezin talks about his new documentary called Jingle Bell Rocks! It dives into the world of alternative and underground Christmas music. Bill Corbett (the veteran writer and performer from RiffTrax and Mystery Science Theater 3000) talks about his new graphic novel called Super-Powered Revenge Christmas. And there’s another exciting Christmas comic out this year: TheFlash Gordon Holiday Special: 2014. Jesse will talk to its authors, The Daily Show writers Elliott Kalan, Dan McCoy and their pal Stuart Wellington. Lastly, Jesse reveals his one true holiday tradition.</p>
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<p>Mitchell Kezin is the director of the new documentary <i><a href="http://jinglebellrocks.vhx.tv">Jingle Bell Rocks! Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree at 33 ⅓ RPM</a></i>. In it he unravels the backstories of twelve alternative Christmas songs that you won't hear on the radio or in department stores. You'll hear a few of those tracks today.</p>
<p>The film includes other famous Christmas-music lovers including Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips and John Waters.</p>
<p>Kezin will tell us why a grumpy Christmas song helped ignite his love of holiday music and how the US Air Force produced a Christmas album in the late 1960s (complete with fighter jets). He'll also recommend some of his favorite records for people who want to branch out from Bing Crosby.</p>
<p><i>Jingle Bell Rocks!</i> is available now on VOD and DVD.</p>
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<p><center><b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/corbett">Bill Corbett on Riffing and Rebooting Christmas</a></b></center></p>
<p>If you've ever listened to <i><a href="http://www.mst3k.com">Mystery Science Theater 3000</a></i> or <a href="http://www.rifftrax.com">RiffTrax</a>, you know who Bill Corbett is. He's been mocking bad movies for decades, alongside his collaborators Michael J. Nelson and Kevin Murphy.</p>
<p>He's also kept busy as a writer, a screenwriter and a playwright. He writes for the public radio show <a href="http://www.witsradio.org">Wits</a>, was a contributor to <a href="http://prairiehome.org">A Prairie Home Companion</a> and even wrote the Eddie Murphy movie <i>Meet Dave</i>.</p>
<p>This year, he's getting into the holiday spirit. What if Santa Claus and Rudolph were actually super heroes that went by the names Red Avenger and Caribou? What if they spent their time fighting the villainous Ebenezer Scrooge? That's the premise of Corbett's new graphic novel <i><a href="http://www.superpoweredrevengechristmas.com">Super-Powered Revenge Christmas</a></i>. </p>
<p>Corbett will tell us why he chose to tackle a Christmas reboot, and explain why his most important holiday tradition involves melted cheese. And we couldn't let him go without divulging one of his favorite bad Christmas movies -- he'll tell us about <i><a href="http://www.rifftrax.com/santa-and-the-ice-cream-bunny">Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny</a></i>.</p>
<p>Super Powered Revenge Christmas is now available.</p>
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<p><center><b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/flashgordon">The Flop House Tackles the Holiday with Flash Gordon</a></b></center></p>
<p>The Daily Show writers Dan McCoy and Elliott Kalan host <a href="http://www.flophousepodcast.com">The Flop House</a> podcast along with their pal, Stuart Wellington. The films the show covers aren't complete amateurish duds like <i>The Room</i> or <i>Birdemic</i>. Rather, they deal with Hollywood gone wrong. Think films like <i>Pompeii</i> or <i>Dracula 3D</i>.</p>
<p>Now the show's hosts have written a new holiday comic: <a href="http://www.flophousepodcast.com/2014/11/the-peaches-wrote-a-comic-book-together/">The Flash Gordon Holiday Special: 2014</a>. The adventures Flash and his crew go on show the hero in unusual situations that you may not expect; especially if the only thing you know about Flash is the 80's Queen song.</p>
<p>They'll talk about the Flash Gordon mythos and some of their favorite bad Christmas films. Plus, they'll explain how they celebrate Cagemas; a special holiday tradition that's all about Nicolas Cage.</p>
<p>The Flash Gordon Holiday Special: 2014 is out this month from Dynamite Comics.</p>
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<p><center><b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/outshot-peewee">The Outshot: The Peewee's Playhouse Christmas Special</a></b></center></p>
<p>Jesse doesn't have many holiday traditions. But he'll tell you about the one thing that he makes time for every year: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pee-Wees-Playhouse-Christmas-Special/dp/B0002IQASG">The Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special.</a> </p>
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<p>Nat Faxon talks about going from bit parts to starring roles, and what it was like to meet George Clooney. Mimi Pond talks about the sex, drugs and profanity she encountered while working at a diner in the 1970s. She put together a graphic novel about all of it. Werner Herzog reveals his origin story. Mark Frauenfelder shares some new culture recommendations. Jesse tells you about The Beach Boys’ Smiley Smile.</p>
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<p><center><b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/faxon-married">"It read like an independent movie": Nat Faxon on the Dark Comedy of 'Married'</a></b></center></p>
<p>Nat Faxon is an actor. You maybe saw him on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2177491/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Ben and Kate</a>. He co-wrote the Oscar-winning script for The Descendants, which starred George Clooney, and also co-directed and co-wrote The Way Way Back. Faxon's been working as an actor since the early 2000s. Mostly in bit parts, the sidekick, the comic relief. Now he's got a leading role on Married, a new comedy on FX.</p>
<p>Married is a dark comedy about a married couple, played by Faxon and Judy Greer. The couple has been together for ten years and is growing apart, tugged in separate directions by their children, a lack of steady unemployment, and uncertain finances.</p>
<p>Faxon talks about how the show relates to his real-life married life, why he enjoys just being an actor instead of running the show, and the uncomfortable situation in which he first met George Clooney.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fxnetworks.com/married">Married</a> premieres this Thursday on FX.</p>
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<p><center><b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/mark-f-140715">Mark Frauenfelder Recommends: 'Forbidden Island' and 'Citizen Keane'</a></b></center></p>
<p>This week's recommendations come from <a href="http://boingboing.net/">BoingBoing</a> founder and <a href="http://boingboing.net/tag/gweek">Gweek</a> host Mark Frauenfelder. </p>
<p>He suggests checking out <a href="http://www.gamewright.com/gamewright/index.php?section=games&amp;page=game&amp;show=245">Forbidden Island</a>, a co-operative game. It's a simple premise: collect four treasures from a sinking island. </p>
<p>He also recommends <a href="http://feralhouse.com/citizen-keane/">Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes</a>, a biography about the sketchy past of Walter and Margaret Keane, the couple who painted the kitschy pop-art paintings of <a href="http://keane-eyes.com/">teary, big-eyed children.</a></p>
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<p><center><b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/herzog-becoming-an-artist">Werner Herzog on "The Day I Became an Artist". Spoiler: There Isn't One!</a></b></center></p>
<p>It’s fair to say that Werner Herzog is a one-of-a-kind filmmaker. He’s made critically-acclaimed documentaries, like Grizzly Man and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. And some art-house staples like Fitzcarraldo. But he also made Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans -- where a crack-smoking Nicholas Cage has hallucinations of iguanas and a breakdancing Mafioso. And don’t forget that Herzog was the SUBJECT of a film called Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe.</p>
<p>So, it should come as no surprise that there wasn't one day when he became an artist. He sort of always knew. He tells us about growing up in Bavaria, how walking the Albanian border taught him more than film school ever could, and why he just wasn't impressed by the first moving images he saw.</p>
<p>Werner Herzog has a new Blu-Ray boxset coming out later this month from Shout! Factory. It collects sixteen of his earliest films -- most of them on Blu-Ray for the first time. It's called <a href="http://www.shoutfactory.com/product/herzog-collection-limited-edition">Herzog: The Collection.</a></p>
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<p><center><b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/mimipond-over-easy">Diners, Drugs, and Punk Rock: Mimi Pond on 'Over Easy'</a></b></center></p>
<p>Mimi Pond was an art school dropout in 1970s Oakland, and she was trying to figure out what to be. She walked into a diner and asked for a job application. Instead of a resume, the manager asked her to tell him a joke. She got the job. Her new graphic novel and fictionalized memoir, <a href="http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/shopCatalogLong.php?item=a4c62b8b821e09">Over Easy</a>, is based on her time waiting tables at said diner. </p>
<p>Pond found herself surrounded by storage room sex, assorted sniffables, and a cast of characters so big she couldn't fit them all in her memoir. </p>
<p>She discusses why she always knew she'd be a cartoonist (even as a kid), the mastermind and hiring manager behind the "anarchic punk opera" that was her workplace, and the very specific, improvisational nature of waiting tables.</p>
<p>Her book is out now.</p>
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<p><center><b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/theoutshot-smiley-smile">The Outshot: Vegetables, Swimming Pools, and Good Vibrations</a></b></center></p>
<p>The Beach Boys had a lot on the line in 1967. How do you follow up huge commercial hits like "Surfin' USA" and "Barbara Ann", and the experimental, influential Pet Sounds? Jesse explains why 1967's Smiley Smile is great all on its own.</p>
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<p>Jenny Slate had a rough first night on Saturday Night Live, but she hasn’t been sweating it since. Things have worked out pretty well. Marcel the Shell has millions of views on YouTube, and she’s even got the lead in a new upcoming movie about a stand up comic dealing with an unexpected pregnancy. It’s called Obvious Child. Later, Loren Bouchard, the creator of Bob’s Burgers, will explain how he pieced together the animated show’s theme music. Plus, the folks at NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour will tell you about a movie-to-TV adaptation that's actually worth watching, and a great new graphic novel. Lastly, Jesse will tell you about the one time he actually believed that live theater was better than just going to the movies.</p>
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<p><center><a href="https://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/jenny-slate"><b>Jenny Slate on Marcel the Shell, Besties, SNL and 'Obvious Child'</b></a></center></p>
<p>Jenny Slate has probably already turned up in one of your favorite shows -- she spent a season on Saturday Night Live, and she's had recurring roles on Parks and Recreation, Kroll Show, and Bored to Death. But if you don't recognize her face, maybe you know this voice. The voice of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. </p>
<p>Slate co-wrote two animated shorts about Marcel, the anthropormophic shell with one googly eye, and gave him his signature voice. The shorts have racked up over thirty million views on the web. </p>
<p>Now, Slate is moving into leading lady territory. She's the star of the upcoming independent film, Obvious Child, about a stand up comic who gets dumped, fired, and then finds out she's pregnant from a one-night stand. </p>
<p>Slate joins us to talk about the comic one-upmanship she practices with her best friend, her infamous f-bomb on SNL, handling abortion as part of a storyline, and what it was like to expand her acting horizons.</p>
<p>If you somehow missed the Marcel the Shell with Shoes On craze, you can find the shorts on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF9-sEbqDvU&amp;feature=kp">YouTube</a>. Slate's movie, <a href="http://obviouschildmovie.tumblr.com/">Obvious Child</a>, will be theatres June 6, 2014. </p>
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<p><center><a href="https://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/pchh-140527"><b>Pop Culture Happy Hour: Why 'Fargo' Is Worth Watching, a Memoir about Diner Life</b></a></center></p>
<p>Linda Holmes and Glen Weldon of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour stop by to recommend a few of their favorite new things to read and watch.</p>
<p>Linda recommends catching up with the movie-to-television adaptation <a href="http://www.fxnetworks.com/fargo">Fargo</a>. It stars Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton and Alison Tolman and is finishing up its first season on FX.</p>
<p>Glen highly suggests checking out Mimi Pond's <a href="http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/shopCatalogLong.php?item=a4c62b8b821e09">Over Easy</a>, a graphic novel memoir about her experiences working in an Oakland diner in the 1970s. </p>
<p>You can hear Glen and Linda weekly on the <a href="http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=89697153">Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast</a>, and find Linda's writing on <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/">NPR's Monkey See blog</a>.</p>
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<p><center><a href="https://soundcloud.com/hrishihirway/songexploder-no-8-loren"><b>Song Exploder no. 8: Loren Bouchard on 'Bob's Burgers</b></a></center></p>
<p>Bob’s Burgers is an animated show that just finished up its fourth season on FOX. It follows the travails of Bob, his family, and their hamburger shop. The voices on the show include the very funny H. Jon Benjamin, Eugene Mirman and Kristen Schaal. The creator of the show, Loren Bouchard, Also created its opening music.</p>
<p>Loren Bouchard talked to Hrishi Hirway for an episode of his podcast Song Exploder. It's a show where Hrishi asks musicians to deconstruct their songs, track by track. Since Bouchard pulls double duty as composer and creator, he wrote music that’s deeply connected to the themes of the show.</p>
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<p><center><a href="https://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/the-outshot-bring-in-da-noise-bring-in-da-funk"><b>The Outshot: Bring In Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk</b></a></center></p>
<p>This week Jesse will tell you about the one time he actually believed that live theater was better than just going to the movies.</p>
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<p>You'd be hard pressed to find two music groups with more divergent sounds than the jam band Phish and the horrorcore rap duo Insane Clown Posse. But they've got something in common. Each of them has a deeply passionate following, and each of them has deeply, deeply passionate haters. When Nathan Rabin tried to write a critic's look at these bands' worlds, he found himself sucked in. Then later Jesse talks to Benjamin Nugent about another group of American sub-culture. D&amp;D players, historical reenactors, ham radio enthusiasts. You know, nerds. Ben is the author of American Nerd: The Story of My People. His 2007 book looks at what the word actually means.</p>
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<p><center><a href="http://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/nathan-rabin"><b>Becoming an Enthusiast: Nathan Rabin on Loving Phish and ICP</b></a></center></p>
<p>Some bands thrive in the cultural middleground. You can play their music in the grocery store, and no one objects. Neither the jam band Phish nor the horrorcore hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse plays that kind of music. Each group has a rabid, devoted following of fans, and on the flip side, has inspired intense loathing. Phish's noodley covers and original songs are derided as music for druggies and hacky-sack playing college students. Insane Clown Posse and their dark, often violent music is for "Juggalos", their group of Faygo-drinking, clown makeup- wearing fans.</p>
<p>As a longtime culture critic and former Head Writer of The Onion's AV Club, Nathan Rabin thought he was immune to the draw of either group. Their music and communities weren't high-brow. They weren't terribly fashionable or cool. So he set out to write a kind of sociological text about the groups, and find out why they had such die-hard fans. He didn't know he would end up a convert. </p>
<p>Rabin's new book is <a href="http://rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=thesoundofyou-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=1451626886">You Don't Know Me, But You Don't Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, And My Adventures With Two Of Music's Most Maligned Tribes</a>. </p>
<p>Rabin tells us about his psychedelic experiences at their concerts, his mental breakdown halfway through researching the book, and finding solace in music and community among Phish Heads and Juggalos.</p>
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<center><i>Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes</i></center></p>
<p><center><a href="http://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/comics-130709"><b>Comic Recommendations From Brian Heater and Alex Zalben</b></a></center></p>
<p>Brian Heater and Alex Zalben stop by to recommend their favorite graphic novels as of late.</p>
<p>Brian recommends <a href="http://rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=thesoundofyou-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=0300184409">Aesthetics: A Memoir </a> by Ivan Brunetti. A self-taught artist, illustrator for the New Yorker, and currently on faculty at Columbia College Chicago, Brunetti examines his many influences and how they combined to make his unique, simple, DIY style. </p>
<p>Alex suggests Matt Kindt's <a href="http://rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=thesoundofyou-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=159643662X">Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes</a>. In the town of Red Wheelbarrow, no crime gets by Detective Gould. But can this hardboiled detective connect the dots between a young woman who obsessively steals chairs, a man who carts dirt around town, and a photographer whose subject matter is others' private tragedies?</p>
<p>Brian Heater is the author of BoingBoing's comics column, <a href="http://boingboing.net/tag/comics-rack">Comics Rack</a>. He also hosts the new podcast, <a href="http://riylcast.tumblr.com/">Recommended if you Like</a>.</p>
<p>Alex Zalben is a producer for <a href="http://www.mtv.com/geek/">MTV Geek</a> and host of the Nerdist podcast <a href="http://comicbookclublive.com/">Comic Book Club</a>.</p>
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<p><center><a href="http://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/americannerd"><b>Nerding It Up With Benjamin Nugent</b></a></center></p>
<p><i>This interview originally aired in 2008.</i></p>
<p><a href="http://www.benjaminnugent.com/index.html">Benjamin Nugent</a>'s book <a href="http://rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=thesoundofyou-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=B003A02YWY">American Nerd</a> explores a people and their history. Nerds have been an archetype for decades now. But where did they come from? What is a "nerd", anyway? Benjamin Nugent set out to write a loving portrait of nerds and nerdiness -- including his own.</p>
<p>He talks to us about the origins of "nerds" in the humor pages of college newspapers, <a href="http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/nerds-of-seduction/n8671/">Saturday Night Live's first dig at nerds</a> , and the underappreciated toughness of his nerdy friends in middle school. </p>
<p>Nugent released a novel, <a href="http://rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=thesoundofyou-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=1439136599">Good Kids</a>, earlier this year.</p>
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<p><center><a href="http://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/outshot-thief"><b>The Outshot: Thief</b></a></center></p>
<p>Jesse recommends the 1981 noir <a href="http://rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=thesoundofyou-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=0792838947">Thief</a>, starring James Caan. It's a crime thriller about one last job, but it's just as much about running from loneliness as it is about running from the cops. Director Michael Mann infuses it with a cool, dark beauty unlike any robbery film you've seen.</p>
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